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单词 inky
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Definition of inky in English:

inky

adjectiveinkiest, inkier ˈɪŋkiˈɪŋki
  • 1As dark as ink.

    the cold inky blackness of a Mexican cave
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She wasn't just there on Halloween night - she was there every night… Especially on dark, inky black winter ones.
    • I looked up and around me was a infinity of space, stars glittered at me as the last of my home fell away leaving me drifting, drifting away slowly into inky blackness and glimmers of white.
    • However, the sun was soon down below the horizon and the sky was covered with inky blackness, but her brothers were still nowhere to be seen.
    • The full moon was shining brightly through the inky blackness.
    • Suddenly she hands me her torch and wonders off into the thick inky blackness of night.
    • Ike turned off the TV with a clap of his hand and the room was pitched instantly into inky blackness.
    • When he looked into the huge chasm all he could see was the darkest black, the inky color of the unexplored depths of an ancient cave.
    • This inky dark Cabernet Sauvignon is that seductive siren.
    • A hundred feet out the ocean began to churn and boil with a dark inky color.
    • It is inky dark, with fireflies flashing in the trees and a gibbous moon hanging over Venus.
    • With a gasp from the motors and a jolt, the ship surged into the overwhelming blackness of space, inky dark except for the sprinkling of stars.
    • Everything was dark, inky black except for the image floating before him.
    • They pulled open the warped wooden door and stepped into the inky dark of the carousel.
    • It felt much like a cathedral, with smooth walls of dark stone that soared up into an inky blackness.
    • She looked down at her hands, seeing nothing but inky blackness.
    • The only redemption to the inky blackness was her lone lamp.
    • His eyes were a dark brown, almost inky brown, black in a sense.
    • She gripped the iron edges and suspended herself in the inky blackness, as she heard footsteps going through the corridors.
    • There was a bed covered in rich dark green blankets, the window revealed an inky black night.
    • Dark, inky black clouds swathed over the sun and blotted out the sky like a curtain of stormy nightfall.
    Synonyms
    black, jet-black, jet, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch, black as pitch, coal-black, black as night, sable, ebony, dark
    literary Stygian, Cimmerian
  • 2Stained with ink.

    bureaucrats with inky fingers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He takes strand of her two-tone hair and twists it in his inky fingers.
    • Sometimes too many keys rose at once and jammed together, so his fingers were all inky from pulling them apart.
    • He had been trying to coordinate a week of anti-war campaigning on campus and had just wiped inky fingers across one of the pristine T-shirts.
    • I'll put my inky fingers up and admit that such a truncation popped into my mind straight away.
    • My fingers are a bit inky after reading, mind - anyone else getting that?

Derivatives

  • inkiness

  • noun ˈɪŋkɪnəsˈɪŋkinəs
    • There are also some scenes where the blacks are a bit dark and oversaturated, leading to an inkiness and loss of definition in some scenes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The newest member in the 908th Expeditionary Refueling Squadron, she struggled to control her nerves as the newly trained boom operator refueled fighter aircraft over a war zone - in the inkiness of night - for the first time.
      • The orange ball of fire sank beneath the vast sea of inkiness as the sky blushed a deep red.
      • Faces are hidden behind masks and by the inkiness of the night so identity is uncertain.
      • Feel the depth of her gooey blackness - the inkiness of the ocean bottom with predators of shiny eyes and hooks on their body looming around her.

Rhymes

dinky, Helsinki, Kinki, kinky, minke, pinkie, pinky, slinky, stinky, stotinki
 
 

Definition of inky in US English:

inky

adjectiveˈɪŋkiˈiNGkē
  • 1As dark as ink.

    the cold inky blackness of a Mexican cave
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Suddenly she hands me her torch and wonders off into the thick inky blackness of night.
    • Ike turned off the TV with a clap of his hand and the room was pitched instantly into inky blackness.
    • The full moon was shining brightly through the inky blackness.
    • The only redemption to the inky blackness was her lone lamp.
    • They pulled open the warped wooden door and stepped into the inky dark of the carousel.
    • A hundred feet out the ocean began to churn and boil with a dark inky color.
    • With a gasp from the motors and a jolt, the ship surged into the overwhelming blackness of space, inky dark except for the sprinkling of stars.
    • It felt much like a cathedral, with smooth walls of dark stone that soared up into an inky blackness.
    • His eyes were a dark brown, almost inky brown, black in a sense.
    • There was a bed covered in rich dark green blankets, the window revealed an inky black night.
    • She looked down at her hands, seeing nothing but inky blackness.
    • This inky dark Cabernet Sauvignon is that seductive siren.
    • She gripped the iron edges and suspended herself in the inky blackness, as she heard footsteps going through the corridors.
    • However, the sun was soon down below the horizon and the sky was covered with inky blackness, but her brothers were still nowhere to be seen.
    • I looked up and around me was a infinity of space, stars glittered at me as the last of my home fell away leaving me drifting, drifting away slowly into inky blackness and glimmers of white.
    • Everything was dark, inky black except for the image floating before him.
    • She wasn't just there on Halloween night - she was there every night… Especially on dark, inky black winter ones.
    • When he looked into the huge chasm all he could see was the darkest black, the inky color of the unexplored depths of an ancient cave.
    • It is inky dark, with fireflies flashing in the trees and a gibbous moon hanging over Venus.
    • Dark, inky black clouds swathed over the sun and blotted out the sky like a curtain of stormy nightfall.
    Synonyms
    black, jet-black, jet, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch, black as pitch, coal-black, black as night, sable, ebony, dark
  • 2Stained with ink.

    bureaucrats with inky fingers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • My fingers are a bit inky after reading, mind - anyone else getting that?
    • I'll put my inky fingers up and admit that such a truncation popped into my mind straight away.
    • He had been trying to coordinate a week of anti-war campaigning on campus and had just wiped inky fingers across one of the pristine T-shirts.
    • He takes strand of her two-tone hair and twists it in his inky fingers.
    • Sometimes too many keys rose at once and jammed together, so his fingers were all inky from pulling them apart.
 
 
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